From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 23 16:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from intrigue.willinet.net (intrigue.willinet.net [198.49.30.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57A8A37B71B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lute@willinet.net) Received: (qmail 6961 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 18:41:55 -0600 Received: from ps19sux.willinet.net (HELO gomer) (205.163.104.20) by intrigue.willinet.net with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 18:41:55 -0600 Received: from lute by gomer with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14gc3s-00005R-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:37:44 -0600 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:37:44 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. Message-ID: <20010323183744.A300@willinet.net> Reply-To: lute@willinet.net References: <20010323113758.A13486@willinet.net> <3ABBB808.95A519F0@aviating.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ABBB808.95A519F0@aviating.com>; from jallen@aviating.com on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:54:32PM -0800 X-Spam-Rating: intrigue.willinet.net 1.6.2 0/0/N Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:54:32PM -0800, Slim wrote: > > And the beauty of it is that these 'old, slow' boxes that are > 'worthless' because they won't run w98 etc. run just fine on > FreeBSD/Linux/Unix systems, right? > > Jim Allen > > Right you are! Even my "main" machine, which is running Linux till I comfortable with FreeBSD was given to me. Had been scavenged, but I spent about $20 for 48MB of RAM, and $130 for a 30GB drive, and it worked so well that I went ahead and sprung for a new 17" monitor for it, picked that up for $140. So for under $300 you have a nice shiny new monitor, disk space till the cows come home, and memory enough to handle even X quite comfortably. It's a 166MHz Pentium, and plenty fast enough running X that I see no need to upgrade. Do you think you would hear someone running Windows in any version over 3.1 that would say the same? And from what I'm reading, FreeBSD should be even a bit faster on here once I switch. Give me your poor, your hungry, your old hardware... :) -- >Lute< Hey! It happens. Well it does... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message